I often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation..

Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?.

All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs; and if these are rejected, nothing is left..

We know too much and feel too little..

Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man to proclaim explicitly that man is a rational….

A smell of petroleum prevails throughout..

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue..

There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere..

Whatever we know without inference is mental..

I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment..

Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in whi….

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame..

When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as ….

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life..

Thomas Aquinas states parenthetically, as something entirely obvious, that men are more rational than women. For my part, I see no evidence of this..

Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable..

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived..

Liberty is the right to do what I like; licence, the right to do what you like..

What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible degree of sexual a….

The best authorities are unanimous in saying that a war with H-bombs might possibly put an end to the human race. It is feared that if many H-bombs a….

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short..